Similes Quotes
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Similes Quotes & Sayings
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If I sneezed, writers' vitals would spew out my nose like bats from a cave mouth, fiery balls from a roman candle, water from an open fire hydrant.
— Dennis Vickers
A soothing sound enveloped them. Ombric hazarded a guess as to its origin, It's like the falling sand from a thousand hourglasses.
— William Joyce
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
— Giannina Braschi
Love's language is hyperbole, but whispered,sibilant similes and promises sotto voce.
It's easy to imagine you've misheard, — Richard Hoffman
Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
— William Shakespeare
The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.
— Raymond Chandler
One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
— Evelyn Waugh
My tears are like a whole pack of dogs on leashes; no matter how I try to tug them back, they just keep barreling forward.
— Holly Schindler
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[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
— Charles Dickens
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
— H.L. Mencken
Similes are like metaphors.
— H. Dean
The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
— Clive Barker
Metaphors are like similes, the only difference is.
— Aaron Davidson
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.
— James J. Kilpatrick
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
— Dean Koontz
Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.
— Tim Heaton
Talking to Reagan was like standing in front of an oncoming train.
— Rainbow Rowell
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
— Horace Walpole
great intelligence in a writer if his similes
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.
— Haruki Murakami
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
— Osip Mandelstam
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.
— William Wordsworth
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.
— Henry David Thoreau
